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I have the Phonic 740 mixer, speakers and mic. I have a stereo system with a tape deck as well. in the other room not hooked to this. I use my desktop computer for playing the cdg's disk I have purchased.  All of my equipment is played from the computer. How do I record my voice to put it on the Showcase in this forum?

Thanks
Gayle

Download a program called AUDACITY---its waht I use, and its a freebie. If you want to convert to MP3 you will also need to DL a free progarm called LAME.enc.dll that does the actual conversion from wave audio  files to mp3.

To acutally record--jsut connect your karaoke line-out jacks to the puter's Line in jack. May need a RCA-stereo mini cable u can get at Ratshack.

I have my JVC SV22 hooked up just this way--works fine lasts along time.

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"You know that I sing the Blues and I do not suffer fools. When I'm on that silver mic, it's gonna cut ya, just like a knife"-The SWINGCAT

SwingcatKurt:  You said:
you will also need to DL a free progarm called LAME.enc.dll that does the actual conversion from wave audio  files to mp3.

I have download Audiograbber awhile back but never used it.  Does this do the same thing?
Thank you
Gayle

audiograbber is the ripper, but it won't automatically do the encoding from .wav to .mp3. For that you need the LAME_ENC.dll file. Do a google search on that, and you'll find it on the web. Then once you have it downloaded, put it in the audiograbber c:/audiograbber folder... and under the MP3 Settings, choose the lame encoder as the one you want to compress with.

KnightShow:  Here is a link to a site I found from my search :

http://www.free-codecs.com/guides/CD_Ri ... _Guide.htm

Here is what they suggested, but I dont want to use just anything I found on the web without asking all of you in this forum first.  The reason I trust what I read in here is becasue you all told me to purchase the Phonic 740 with speakers and I reallylike this system.  I need to look the Phonic over and find the line out. Then try to figure out how to get it hooked up to the computer.  Knightshow? Didyou see my post on what kind of memory and processor I have?  Does that tell you anything on what I can and cant do with this computer.  Anyways here's part of what was writtin in the above link:

This guide will walk you through the steps of configuring CDex (CD Ripper/Encoder). Yes, there are dozens of them and some believe Exact Audio Copy [EAC] is the world's best CD audio ripper. However, I chose CDex because it's a free open source program that's easy to use and you can rip and encode audio within the same program. No sense reinventing the wheel. We'll rip your favorite songs from your favorite CDs, and encode those digital songs as high-quality MP3s, using LAME, the world's best MP3 encoder in this example.

Thanks,
Gayle

SwingcatKurt:  You said:

To acutally record--jsut connect your karaoke line-out jacks to the puter's Line in jack. May need a RCA-stereo mini cable u can get at Ratshack.

I have the Phonic 740 Here is a tripod webstie where i put the pictures of it. I do not know where to have a link coming out from.  If you can look at these and tell me where to have the line coming out.

http://pinkbumblebee57.tripod.com/

Also if the RCA-stereo mini cable will work too.

Thank you!!

for Lame (this is where I downloaded it)
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-f ... l?lame_enc

go to the section where it says "click here to go to the download of lame_enc.dll"

It's a javascript download link, so I can't put the link here. I cancelled my knightshow account, otherwise I'd just put it there for ya!

your memory and cpu.

you didn't say what ghz of cpu you have...

your memory is a bit iffy... it's close to 512MB, but I think you might have multiple sticks, maybe even mis-matched ones.

I'm guessing that you've never opened the case of the computer, and checked out the board?

Hi KnightShow:  I  put on this computer a modum.  I was on dial up and a surge came through the phone line. Curcuit city told me how to replace it.  I do not know where to look inside of the computer to find these things. Someone, I dont see anymore, built this computer for me about 10 years ago.  It is pretty fast, If you need to know whats inside, just let me know.  

Thank you!!!!

Hi:  when I went to open the LAME file, it isnt opeing correctly.  Do I have to purchase Winzip or someother unzipper program?  Is there a free version?

you open lame WITH audacity. when you click on lame it wall ask you what program you want to open lame with--click on audacity off the list. Then lame runs in the background and when you go to export as an mp3 after recording on audacity a small box will pop up indicating lame is in operation.

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"You know that I sing the Blues and I do not suffer fools. When I'm on that silver mic, it's gonna cut ya, just like a knife"-The SWINGCAT

gayle, send me an email, and I'll mail the lame_enc.dll file to you!

Then when you have it, save it to your c:/audiograbber file.

))EDIT(( Okay, mailed it to you!

Thanks Knight show. I think I need to buy somekind of a rca wire from the front of the phonic  740 to the back of my computer. I still need to figure that out

Thank you
Here is the phonic 740

http://pinkbumblebee57.tripod.com/

or you can go USB out to a device that converts to RCA.

ebay link

Knightshow:  Did you look at my phonic equipment?  Can you pls explain alittle more detail on where I plug into the phonics?  You can click on the phonic picture and see the jacks. I have a usb port on this computer.  I really need things explained to me this way if your can.  I REALLY appreciate you help  :hug:

based on what I'm seeing, you'd go RCA or 1/4" to one of the inputs, like your input 5 has two rca connections...

Same thing with the soundblaster MP3+ device... converts the USB out from a computer to a RCA in or OUT...

You could also come in the "TAPE IN" but I'd rather use the regular 1-8 lines!!